Improvement in fluting machines



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Letters Patent NUQQAQZ, dated Fcrusry 25, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ILUTING MACHINES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE EDWIN KING, oi` the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fl'nting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichl i i Figure 1 is a frontl elevation of aiiuting machine constructed accordingto my invention.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same. i

Figure 3 is a detached section representing a portion of the sar-:1o.

Figure 4 is a plan View ,of 'a piece of the lluted pulliing for the manufacture of which my invention is intended.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention is designed more especially for making the lluted putting which is the subject of my application for Letters Patent allowed September-26, 1865, and which, when made in the manner described in the said application, requires to be washed or laundered before itwill assume the shape or conformation required in the nished article.

The invention consists in the combination of a peculiarly shaped guide with suitable luting rollers; and furthermore, in a novel construction of luting rollers, by which means the fabric of which the iluting is made may be properly iluted and puii'ed without the necessity of washing as in the case just mentioned.

To enable others to understand the construction and operation of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A represents the frame which supports thp working parts of the apparatus, and situated longitudinally in the upper part of which are two luting rollers, I3 and C, which are situated one above the other, with their ends projecting through large vertical slots, u, formed in the ends of the frame A, the roller B being supported. in semicircular bearings formed in the lower ends of' the aforesaid slots a, and furnished at one end with a crank, b, and the upper roller C working in semicircular bearings, c, formed in sliding-blocks, c, placed upon the ends thereof, andpres'sed down `upon the same by a spring, d, the tension of which may be regulated by means of a vertical screw, e, situated centrally in the top of the frame A. When desired, the upper roller C may be rigidly held within a given ,distance of the lower roller by vertical set-screws,f, situated one at each end oi the top-ot' the aforesaid frame A, and acting upon the sliding or adjustable bearings c. The puftingis represented in iig. 4, and is formed of strips of any suitable fabric, and of a width, when finished, nearly 01' quite equal to the length of the flirting rollers B C, and is formed with longitudinal portions, g, which are iluted transversely to the length of the strip aforesaid; also with portions 71., in which the fabric is pressed flat, and through which longitudinal rows of stitching are formed to render permanent the conformation of the p'uling, and also with portions z', which are intended to be wider than the .parts just described, and which are puifed or crinkled in such manner as to possess an irregular, wavy surface. In order to form these several portions of the putling, each of the uting rollers B C is formed with as many annular or circumferential series, A@ of grooves and flutes, as there are fluted portions g upon thepuiing; with as manynarrow annular faces B as there are llattened portions L, and with as many comparatively broad portions C as there are puffed portionsz in the finished puing, each of the said parts of the 'rollers being of the same width 'as that portion of the completed puiing which itis designed to shape, and the circumferential faces or plain portions C being of such diameter that when the two rollers are in proper position those upon one roller will be situated at such a distance from those upon the other that no considerable pressure will be exerted upon the fabric in passing between them, and the several series A of grooves and Hutes upon one roller gearing into those upon the other roller. D indicates pressers, the real-most end of each one of which is curved downward and fitted upon the upper reermost part of each of the faces B of' the lower roller B, `with its forward end curved upward in contact with the forward sides of the corresponding face I3' upon the other roller, as sho-wn in igs. 2 and. 3, the aforesaid rearmost ends of these prosscrs D boing pressed against the roller I3 by sctscrews,j, passing through a horizontal. bar or brace, 7C, secured upon thc rear of the frame A. Fixed upon the forward side of the frame A, in front of the roller B, is a horizontal supporting brace, m, which has ixed upon it an inclined plate, 02,' up'in which is supported the inclined guide E, which is composed of two pieces of sheet metal, secured one over the other, at such a distance apart as to permit the passage of the cloth or fabric between them, and those parts of this guide F in front of the plain cylindrical portions C of the rollers are curved upward or arched transversely, as shown at a', in such manner that the width of fabric passed between each pair of the plain portions C will be greater, if stretched out to its full extent7 than the width of the said portions, so that the said fabric, by means of its increased width, will be crinkled or puffed in passing between the aforesaid plain portions C', as will be presently fully set forth. The end of the strip of cloth or fabric from which the fluted putting is to be formed is passed into and through the guide E and between the rollers .B C, anda. rotary motion, in the direction of the arrow shown in iig. 2, being connnunicatedV to 'the said rollers by turning the crank o, or by other suitable means. The fabric is drawn lengthwise between the rollers, those portions thereof which pass between the .several opposite series A of grooves and flutes of the two rollers being tinted as shown at g in fig 4, while those portions ofthe said fabric which pass betweenthc smooth, narrow, :innular faces B of the rolle s, being formed into gathers by the luting of the fabric -at the sides or edges thereof, are pressed flat by passing under the pressers D, as the fabric is drawn bach, at the saine time that these portions of the fabric drawn through the curved or arched parte a of the guide E, being, if stretched totheir fall extent, of a width greater than that of the smooth cylindrical portions C', and being` also gathered by the iluting formed at their sides or edges, are caused to assume a erinhled or puffed forni as they are passed between the aforesaid smooth portions AC", the distance between each pair of opposite smooth portions C aforesaid beingsuch that no pressure is exerted upon the fabric passing between theln beyond that required to simply press the convex surfaces thereof downward to a sufficient degree to insure the shaping thereof into the puffed condition just-herein described. By these means the fluted pufiing is broughtinto the forni required in the finished article without the necessity of washing the same in order to bring the putting into such form as is the ease with that described in my application for Letters Patent hereinbefore mentioned. To complete the pulling, longitudinal rows of stitching are formed in the flat parts 7L of the pulling to retain it in shape, and when desired, the pulling as thus completed may be divided longitudinally in the said parts 7L to separate it into narrow pieces7 as required, for various trimming purposes.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The guide E, constructed with one or more curved or arched portions a, in combination with suitable Hating rollers, substantially as herein Set forth for the purpose specified.

GEO. EDWIN KING.

Witnesses:

A. LE CLERC, Gr` W. REED. 

